App's windows exist but not visible

(No, this isn't a hidden app, or minimized window, or window on different screen (Mission Control))
About a month ago, windows in Microsoft Word (Office 2011) stopped being visible on the desktop, but are listed under the app's Window menu item.
This affects all windows in that app that I can generate (the initial choice window (sorta an Open File dialog), a window created by opening a Word document, & the app's preference window, Page Setup, Print, Properties, etc.).
If I choose to use the app's Minimize Window menu item, I see the window morph into the dock. If I then click on the window in the dock, it again visibly morphs onto the desktop only to disappear when it would normally show the full window.
The morphing window & minimized window appear to have the correct content.
Based on the morphing, the size of the invisible window easily fits on the monitor (either built-in or external).
The window does not show up in Application Windows (F10) or related window pickers.
This does not happen to Powerpoint or Excel, nor to any other app that I've noticed.
I logged in as another user on my computer and the Word windows work properly for that user.
Nothing relevant appears in any logs when I open a window in Word (Only log message is "Microsoft Word[2296]: GetScaledBatteryInfo is unimplemented and will be removed soon. Please stop using it.")
I know of nothing special that happened at the time I first noticed this, but I don't run Word daily. (Since the problem arose, I've been using Pages to view Word files.)
I've tried repairing permissions. I've also done a complete removal of Office 2011 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768), which includes deleting all the ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft* files, ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data directory, the /Application/Office 2011/ directory, the /Library/Application Support/Microsoft directory, Microsoft fonts, and more, with multiple reboots. After a full reinstall, the problem remains. This would seem to rule out Word itself or its preferences.
As a s/w developer (non-Mac usually), I'm pretty good at chasing down similar bugs, but I've not been able to find anything similar by searching here or by Googling.
Since it works for the other user, the problem likely is in my preferences somewhere, but not in the MS Word or Office preferences (since those were completely removed & replaced).
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi William,
Did you eventually find a solution to this issue, because I'm pretty sure I'm encountering exactly the same problem since a couple of days!

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